Head Lapping Instructional Blog

[thinkchronicity]

Cool new article on this lost art. Gonna have a practise on some worn out heads armed with this.

How to Relap Tape Heads in 4 Steps – Head Relapping Guide

How to relap tape heads: in this guide I do a head relapping for Technics and Revox decks, and the principle is the same for all tape recorders.

www.leson.org

 

[AE_Stereo]

Interesting article.
But I would not dare to do it on a real head ever.

 

[caution]

I'll have to try this, I have a bag of extras from scavenged units to practice with.
If you're curious, here's a factory worker surfacing new heads at Unitra in Poland